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Each year Portland Opera To Go takes an opera on the road, sharing the power of opera, music, and theater with schools and communities throughout Oregon and SW Washington. It’s not necessarily the easiest thing in the world, as you might imagine. But it’s one of the most rewarding . . . for us and for the thousands upon thousands of students who get to experience live opera, many for the first time.

This year it’s Puccini’s La Bohème.

And this blog will give you a first-hand view from the performers themselves of what it’s like when Opera hits the road!

 

Here’s a link to more information on the tour and the program.

Funding for this tour has been provided through the generosity of:

The JELD-WEN Foundation
Harold and Arlene Schnitzer/CARE Foundation
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Spirit Mountain Community Fund
The Standard
Bank of America Foundation
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
Robert D. & Marcia H. Randall Charitable Trust
The Swigert Foundation
US Bank Foundation
Herbert A. Templeton Foundation
Oregon Cultural Trust
Pacific Power Foundation
The Carpenter Foundation
Kiewit Bilfinger Berger
Juan Young Trust
Autzen Foundation

Journal #5

We Sing Seattle-ese

Kids say the darndest things. Ya gotta love 'em. The cutest and most humorous answer to any of our questions this season:

Question: Does anyone know the language we just sang?

Answer: Seattle?

Yes, Seattle has it's own opera dialect. I'll need a refresher course for that diction. We also get great answers for other questions. During our Opera Improv intro we will sing a snippit of an aria and ask our audience, usually K-5th graders, "what type of character or mood did I just sing?"

Answers fly at us such as,

"You look like you're a king punishing a peasant"

"You're a princess who just kissed the prince"

"There's a spider in front of you and you're scared"

"You're lost and you can't find your mommy"

Smart kids. Clever kids. Never do they cease to entertain us.

Written by: Bobby Jackson